1. Name of the Program: Culture Crossing
2. URL of program: www.culturecrossing.net/index.php
3. Purpose of the Program: It gives users information about different cultures around the world.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I found this website very interesting. It is a great way for students to get an understanding of what cultures across the world are like. I really like the feature in which students can see what is expected of students in other parts of the world. It is user-based information, which makes it a little difficult to use in class as some information is not appropriate for school.
1. Name of the Program: Bookrix
2. URL of program: http://www.bookrix.com/about.html
3. Purpose of the Program: Anyone can post their writing (books, short stories, poems, etc.) on the website.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great idea. Not everyone can get their writings professionally published, but not anyone can get their writing published online. This could be used in the classroom by having students share their writings on the website.
Assignment #2 - 11-21
1. Name of the Program: Digital Vaults
2. URL of program: http://www.digitalvaults.org/#
3. Purpose of the Program: A website that hosts a collection of historical records, photos, and documents. Users are able to look through pathways that link information together.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This webvsite seemed like a great location to find information on American history. I found it interesting to look through the information they had. I think students would find it to be an interesting way to "look" through history.
1. Name of the Program: Interactive Quiz
2. URL of program: http://classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz/
3. Purpose of the Program: The website makes interactive arcade-style quizzes. Teachers can create their own quizzes.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This was a quick and easy website to create games for the classroom. The nice thing about it was students could choose which game they wanted to play, or you could decide the type of game.
Assignment #3 - 22 - 32
1. Name of the Program: Myths and Legends
2. URL of program: http://myths.e2bn.org/teachers/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create their own myths and legends and post them online.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I really like this website. My students have to create constellation myths for a constellation they create. This would be a great way for my students to publish their writing.
1. Name of the Program: Shape Collage
2. URL of program: http://www.shapecollage.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create collages with their pictures.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a fun way to share photos. I take a lot of pictures during the school year and this would be a great way to put all of the photos together and share with my students.
Assignment #4 - 33-43
1. Name of the Program: Evri (Twine?)
2. URL of program: http://www.evri.com/welcome
3. Purpose of the Program: It is a search engine of topics that matter currently.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This was an interesting website to look at. It is a great idea for people to keep up on topics that are occuring today. It finds the latest information on topics you search for without much effort.
1. Name of the Program: World Digital Library
2. URL of program: http://www.wdl.org/en#
3. Purpose of the Program: Hosts digital information from countries and cultures around the world.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great website for my world history class. I spend a lot of time looking for digital information to share with my students. This website has digital information to use and categorized by location, time, and topic.
Assignment #5 - 44-54
1. Name of the Program: Capzles
2. URL of program: http://www.capzles.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create online timelines.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I did a world history project this year in which the students collaborated with each other to create a timeline. I had problems with the website I used, and this seems like a better option for the project. It is user-friendly and has more options than the other site I used.
1. Name of the Program: The Differentiator
2. URL of program: http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/
3. Purpose of the Program: The website uses Bloom's Taxonomy to create sentences for teachers to use to differentiate their lessons.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: Wow! This site is a great resource in creating lessons and doing curriculum maps. It's a good reminder to differentiate your lessons and how to word the objectives.
Assignment #6 - 55-65
1. Name of the Program: Lovely Charts
2. URL of program: www.lovelycharts.com
3. Purpose of the Program: It is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create a variety of professional looking charts.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This website it free to use, but I do not think I will use it. It was easy enough to use, but I have other diagramming applications that I already use and like.
1. Name of the Program: Museum Box
2. URL of program: http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
3. Purpose of the Program: It provides the tools for users to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: As a history teacher, I think this is a great source for the classroom. I do a debate in my class, and my students loved the activity. I think this will be another way for them to "argue" their viewpoints.
Assignment #7 - 66-76
1. Name of the Program: Picture Book Maker
2. URL of program: http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/picturebookmaker/picturebookmaker.php?PHPSESSID=cba2b50a15700462b92b17052c9bf55d
3. Purpose of the Program: It allows the user to create picture books online. You can even print them out.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a fun website to use in the classroom. I think my students would enjoy it because they get to create a product and not just write a story.
1. Name of the Program: Roohit
2. URL of program: http://roohit.com/site/view1.php
3. Purpose of the Program: It allows the user to highlight and annotate text on webpages. It save the highlights and allows the user to go back and view previous marks.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great tool to use for research papers and working on skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and finding the main idea. It can be a little tricky to use at first. It also can be used to get to sites that are blocked at schools which can cause problems.
Assignment #8 - 77-144
1. Name of the Program: Tagul
2. URL of program: http://tagul.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create word clouds.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: It is similar to Wordle. One nice feature is you can pick a shape for the words to create. This can add additional meaning to the words.
1. Name of the Program: Wordnik
2. URL of program: http://www.wordnik.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Gives you a variety of information about a word, more than just the definition.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great resource for the language arts classroom. Students are often taught to think in definitions and thesauruses but not beyond that. This will allow students to see what the word truly is.
1. Name of the Program: Vorbeo
2. URL of program: http://vorbeo.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Allows users to create a poll for their websites.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is website is easy to use and would be a fun way to customize your Wiki or webpage. Teachers could post questions on their websites for students or parents to gather information.
1. Name of the Program: Inudge
2. URL of program: http://www.inudge.net/index.en.html
3. Purpose of the Program: Users create music by clicking on colors and drawing on the screen.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: It was a fun website to play with and create music. It would be a fun way for students to create their own music and add it to other projects they created.
Assignment #1 - 1-10
1. Name of the Program: Culture Crossing
2. URL of program: www.culturecrossing.net/index.php
3. Purpose of the Program: It gives users information about different cultures around the world.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I found this website very interesting. It is a great way for students to get an understanding of what cultures across the world are like. I really like the feature in which students can see what is expected of students in other parts of the world. It is user-based information, which makes it a little difficult to use in class as some information is not appropriate for school.
1. Name of the Program: Bookrix
2. URL of program: http://www.bookrix.com/about.html
3. Purpose of the Program: Anyone can post their writing (books, short stories, poems, etc.) on the website.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great idea. Not everyone can get their writings professionally published, but not anyone can get their writing published online. This could be used in the classroom by having students share their writings on the website.
Assignment #2 - 11-21
1. Name of the Program: Digital Vaults
2. URL of program: http://www.digitalvaults.org/#
3. Purpose of the Program: A website that hosts a collection of historical records, photos, and documents. Users are able to look through pathways that link information together.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This webvsite seemed like a great location to find information on American history. I found it interesting to look through the information they had. I think students would find it to be an interesting way to "look" through history.
1. Name of the Program: Interactive Quiz
2. URL of program: http://classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz/
3. Purpose of the Program: The website makes interactive arcade-style quizzes. Teachers can create their own quizzes.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This was a quick and easy website to create games for the classroom. The nice thing about it was students could choose which game they wanted to play, or you could decide the type of game.
Assignment #3 - 22 - 32
1. Name of the Program: Myths and Legends
2. URL of program: http://myths.e2bn.org/teachers/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create their own myths and legends and post them online.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I really like this website. My students have to create constellation myths for a constellation they create. This would be a great way for my students to publish their writing.
1. Name of the Program: Shape Collage
2. URL of program: http://www.shapecollage.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create collages with their pictures.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a fun way to share photos. I take a lot of pictures during the school year and this would be a great way to put all of the photos together and share with my students.
Assignment #4 - 33-43
1. Name of the Program: Evri (Twine?)
2. URL of program: http://www.evri.com/welcome
3. Purpose of the Program: It is a search engine of topics that matter currently.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This was an interesting website to look at. It is a great idea for people to keep up on topics that are occuring today. It finds the latest information on topics you search for without much effort.
1. Name of the Program: World Digital Library
2. URL of program: http://www.wdl.org/en#
3. Purpose of the Program: Hosts digital information from countries and cultures around the world.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great website for my world history class. I spend a lot of time looking for digital information to share with my students. This website has digital information to use and categorized by location, time, and topic.
Assignment #5 - 44-54
1. Name of the Program: Capzles
2. URL of program: http://www.capzles.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create online timelines.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: I did a world history project this year in which the students collaborated with each other to create a timeline. I had problems with the website I used, and this seems like a better option for the project. It is user-friendly and has more options than the other site I used.
1. Name of the Program: The Differentiator
2. URL of program: http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/
3. Purpose of the Program: The website uses Bloom's Taxonomy to create sentences for teachers to use to differentiate their lessons.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: Wow! This site is a great resource in creating lessons and doing curriculum maps. It's a good reminder to differentiate your lessons and how to word the objectives.
Assignment #6 - 55-65
1. Name of the Program: Lovely Charts
2. URL of program: www.lovelycharts.com
3. Purpose of the Program: It is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create a variety of professional looking charts.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This website it free to use, but I do not think I will use it. It was easy enough to use, but I have other diagramming applications that I already use and like.
1. Name of the Program: Museum Box
2. URL of program: http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
3. Purpose of the Program: It provides the tools for users to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: As a history teacher, I think this is a great source for the classroom. I do a debate in my class, and my students loved the activity. I think this will be another way for them to "argue" their viewpoints.
Assignment #7 - 66-76
1. Name of the Program: Picture Book Maker
2. URL of program: http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/picturebookmaker/picturebookmaker.php?PHPSESSID=cba2b50a15700462b92b17052c9bf55d
3. Purpose of the Program: It allows the user to create picture books online. You can even print them out.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a fun website to use in the classroom. I think my students would enjoy it because they get to create a product and not just write a story.
1. Name of the Program: Roohit
2. URL of program: http://roohit.com/site/view1.php
3. Purpose of the Program: It allows the user to highlight and annotate text on webpages. It save the highlights and allows the user to go back and view previous marks.
4. Ease of Use: good
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great tool to use for research papers and working on skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and finding the main idea. It can be a little tricky to use at first. It also can be used to get to sites that are blocked at schools which can cause problems.
Assignment #8 - 77-144
1. Name of the Program: Tagul
2. URL of program: http://tagul.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Users can create word clouds.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: It is similar to Wordle. One nice feature is you can pick a shape for the words to create. This can add additional meaning to the words.
1. Name of the Program: Wordnik
2. URL of program: http://www.wordnik.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Gives you a variety of information about a word, more than just the definition.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is a great resource for the language arts classroom. Students are often taught to think in definitions and thesauruses but not beyond that. This will allow students to see what the word truly is.
1. Name of the Program: Vorbeo
2. URL of program: http://vorbeo.com/
3. Purpose of the Program: Allows users to create a poll for their websites.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: This is website is easy to use and would be a fun way to customize your Wiki or webpage. Teachers could post questions on their websites for students or parents to gather information.
1. Name of the Program: Inudge
2. URL of program: http://www.inudge.net/index.en.html
3. Purpose of the Program: Users create music by clicking on colors and drawing on the screen.
4. Ease of Use: excellent
5. Your reaction to the program: It was a fun website to play with and create music. It would be a fun way for students to create their own music and add it to other projects they created.